Romney implies that people vote their pocketbooks, that people vote based only on their immediate financial interest, as they conceive it. But the majority of people simply do not behave in this way. In presidential elections, the majority vote according to what they think is right.
And Romney’s problem lies with the twisted notion of right that has been successfully promulgated by our opinion-leaders. The whole weight of today’s intellectual Establishment is behind the belief that Romney complains of: that people are morally entitled to be taken care of by the government.
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